The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-18
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Key West reports six new cases OF
fever; no deaths.
Refreshing rains in the Northwest
have given fresh life to crops.
It is reported that the White River
Utes have again taken the war path.
A fire in Lombard's iron foundry in
Augusta, Ga, last Saturday caused a
loss Of $4,000.
The first street car line ever operated
in Danville, Va, was opened to the
public last Monday.
The Euglish Government is still un-
decided as to the advisability OF sup
pressing the Irish National League. E
The State Militia of Colorado has
been ordered out to suppress an In
dian outbreak.
G. w. Swoop, of Staunton, Va, ac-
cidentally poisoned himself Friday
and died in a few hours.
Much excitement prevails in Chat
tanooga over the reported discovery OF
natural gas within the city limits.
On the Northwestern road, near
Norway, ILL.,, Friday, timbers OF
tank gave way and killed six men.
The cornerstone of the Bennington
battle monument was laid at Benrins-
ton, VT, August Is.
The first bale of new crop cotton in
South Carolina was shipped last Fri
day to Charleston by Col. Mike Brown
of Barnwell county.
United States Senator Riddleberger
was jailed at Woodstock, Va, for con-
tempt Of court, but was forcibly re-
leased by party of his friends.
The family of VIM. Turner, a prom
inent mill man of Mobile, Ala, was
poisoned last Friday from eating ice
cream.
Henry S. Ives & Co., of Wall street,
New York, have made an assignment
with S2o,0OO,O00 liabilities. The assets
are somewhat in excess of this amount.
-Four hundred and one convicts con-
fined in the main prison at Nashville,
Tenn, have voluntarily appealed to
the people of Tennessee to vote for the
prohibitory amendment.
The Gladstone party have won a
great victory in England in the elec-
ton of Brunner over Lord Henry
Grovesnor, Liberal Unionist, by vote
SIP to 1888.
Three colored preachers, Israel, George
and Colwell, while riding in a wagon,
were run over and killed by West
Point, Ca, train. A fourth, the Rev.
Mr.. Upshaw, was seriously wounded.
The explosion of a boiler at Ex-
change Dock, Savannah, Ga, on Sat-
urday seriously injured three negroes.
The flesh was scalded in some places
from their limbs. One of them died
the next day.
The American branch of the Order
of Foresters were instructed by the
High Court in England to admit ne
groes to membership. They vigorously
protest against the instructions and
will refuse to carry them into effect.
A quarrel among ward politicians
in a saloon in New Orleans Tuesday
ended in a fight with pistols and
knives in which two OF three persons
were seriously hurt.
At Malta, during Thursday, there
have been five new cases of cholera
and five deaths.
The English and French Govern
ments have agreed to neutralize the
Suez, it is reported.
The fire losses during July amounted
to $4,000, 800, just double the average
July loss for the past twelve years.
Since January Ist the total losses
amounted to $76,928,000. The loss on
the Fourth of July footed up S75O,O0O.
Mr.. Leonard Fullbright, of Carroll
county, Ga, wss bitten on each hand
and bis right leg by dog on June 2.
Last Wednesday he was seized with
hydrophobia and died in two days,
suffering most horribly. He was IS
years old.
An election on last Saturday resulted
almost unanimously in favor of the
city of Knoxville subscribing half a
million dollars to the stock of the
Knoxville and Southern Railroad Com
pany and the Rowella Valley Railroad
Company.
After three months have elapsed
Queen Victoria has answered Presi-
dent Cleveland's congratulatory cable
gram on the occasion 6fznaei her jilIlblfilssea
The epistle shows that no slight could
have been intended.
Richard Seaman Scott, who ab-
seconded in 1885 with S160,C00 that
belonged to the Manhattan Bank, has
turned mp in London, England, where
he has made a full confession before
Consul General Waller. For twenty
years Scott was the trusted employee
of the Manhattan Company.
A fire at Pittsburg, Pa, last Satur-
day night caused loss of 100000.
The fire started in carpet store. The
fourth floor having been used by the
masons for forty years, the parapher-
malta of thirty-one lodges was de-
stroyed, and many of them cannot be
Ieplaceu.
The farmers of Barnwell county
shipped I'll carloads of melons from
July to August 8. The car average,
1000 melons, making an aggregate OF
$50, 200 melons. The average price per
car was about S105 The net profit to
the farmers on the shipments thus far
is about $4,000.
The United States Treasurer having
accumulated a supply of one and two
dollar silver certificates, sufficient to
meet the current heavy demand, has
arranged for the prompt delivery OF
these notes to banks, bankers and 9th
ers making the required deposit, from
and after the 18th. The issue of the
notes has been suspended since the
first of May last.
The Dublin CORRESPONDENT of the